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4 Tuesday, April 14. 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORL MEDFORDtlTBIBUNS "Everyone is Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJ3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fit St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRE Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM, Buslnesa Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a second clan matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai r In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 Bv Carrier' In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUzy 1 mo. 1.30 Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City "f Medford Official Papei of jacnton county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASbctATKS Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 14. 1949 (Thursday) "Eggs are cooked at the Do mestic laundry for Kiwanians to dye and set out for the annual Easter egg hunt on the high school baseball field. The Southern Oregon Rab bit Breeders association plans a meeting. 20 YEARS AGO April 14, 1939 (Friday) Southern' Oregon Gem and Mineral society plans its first field trip of the year. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" clumn: "A col legian claims he kissed 40 girls In five minutes. Owing to the haste, efficiency was sacrificed!" 30 YEARS AGO ' April 14, 1929 (Sunday) Anglers on the eve of the season's opening are warned not to jump the gun. The new Catholic church here is to be dedicated Thurs day. 40 YEARS AGO April 14. 1919 (Monday) A contract is let for build ing the Pacific highway from the Josephine county line to Central Point. The salmon fishing season opens on the Rogue. 50 YEARS AGO April 14. 1909 (Wednesday) Medford city council ac cepts bids for paving Front st. from Sxith to Eighth sts. The Ashland city council takes steps to secure a Car negie free library for that city. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct if superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The F.T.C. is a Federal Government agency; what is it? 2. Do you associate the name of Ben Hogan with the game of tennis, golf, or foot ball? 3. Which city in the U. S. officially ranks second in population? 4. What is the popular name for the London Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Office? : 5. Does dew fall from the clouds? 6. In which state is Death Valley? 7. Name the speaker of the U. S. House of Representa tives. 8. Application of . heat to destroy bacteria in milk is known as p ? 9. In which European coun try is Bastille Day celebrated on July 14? 10. U. S. postage stamps are printed in the U. S. Gov ernment Printing Office; true or false? Answers: 1. Federal Trad Commission. 2. Golf. 3. Chi cago (although Lot Angeles now claims second place.) 4. New Scotland Yard. 5. No. 6. California. 7. Sam Ray burn. 8. Pasteurization. 9. France. 10. False (Bureau of Engraving and Printing.) o wwrri rnn T ttt- Guilford,, England-flJPH-Mo- tOnSl daCK. xacuges, ax, una been fined $140 and disquali fied from driving for life. Asked by police when arrest ed if he drank, he said, "Good Cod, yes. I drink like a fish." Parks Are ' an Investment One of the hardest-headed businessmen we know was talking the other day about parks. "It's about time we stopped kidding our selves," he said. "The tourist trade is Oregon's third-largest industry. It is a business which brings more than $150 million into the state each year. It takes nothing out of the state. It creates payrolls, but it doesn't clutter up the state with smokestacks or industrial pollution. It is an in finitely renewable and expandable business. And it is pleasant, not only for us, but for the tourists as long as we make them feel welcome, and provide them with the things they want to see and do. "And," he added, coming to his main point, "more and more tourists ate going to want some thing beside just looking at scenery. They want to get close to it. And that means parks. More parks and recreation facilities are about the cheapest investment we can make and will be one of the most productive." OUR friend came to this realization fairly re- cently. Others have seen the need he expressed for a long time. , . The state has long had a parks department as part of the state highway department, -and those who should know say it has done one of the best jobs in the nation, considering its chronic lack of funds. Perhaps even more important, many of the counties of Oregon are coming to the belief that a parks and recreation department is good bus iness not only in providing for the outdoor needs of their own people, but in attracting, and keep ing, visitors from other states. rOUGLAS county, our neighbor to the north, was one of the pioneers in this development. For the current fiscal year, Douglas county has budgeted $69,650 for its parks department, about $25,000 of it for salaries and wages, and the rest for development, operation, maintenance and capital outlays, including the acquisition of land. Lane county was another parks pioneer. This year its parks budget is about $64,000, with some $30,000 for personal- services, $7,500 for maintenance and operations, and the balance for capital outlays, including land. And Josephine county, our immediate neigh bor to the west, while smaller than Douglas, Lane (or Jackson), has budgeted $40,000 for parks purposes this year. HAVE long urged Jackson county to "get going" on a parks and recreation program. This year, Judge Earl Miller assures us, it is going to do so. A parks and recreation commission will be ap pointed soon, to serve in an advisory capacity to the county court (which will, of course, retain ultimate control over funds and their administra tion). :. Two years ago, the county's budget contained $3,000 for park purposes. This year the amount Js $12,000, little of which has as yet been put to use. For the coming year, we hope the budget committee sees fit to provide funds sufficient to get a good, though belated, start on a rounded and comprehensive parks and recreational program. ""THERE are dozens of spots in the county which, at the moment, are ideally suited for county parks. And Jackson county is also fortunate in that good-sized sections of the best parts of the county are owned by the federal government and, with the proper approach, substantial areas of this federal land could be obtained for park pur poses at a minimum expenditure by the county. Some preliminary work on parks planning has been done by the court itself, and some by a sub committee of the county planning commission. With this as a basis, with enough money to begin an effective program, and with the need and the desirability staring us in the face, there is no reason why Jackson county cannot now take its rightful place among those Oregon counties which are making a realistic approach to the need for parks. KA. ' "" " Humane Slaughter Again Since "Be Kind To Animals" week is due soon (May 3 to 9), now is an appropriate time to bring up the subject of humane slaughter. The Congress last year passed a bill requiring that packers selling meat products ta the govern ment must kill their livestock in a manner which does not cause excessive pain. But this legislation has no effect on many small packing houses. State legislation would be necessary to cause them to use humane methods. "THE Oregon legislature now has before it House Bill 629, a very short and simpie measure, which requires that such procedures be employed in slaughtering in the state of Oregon. All the arguments which finally pursuaded congress of the desirability of such a measure apply just as much to the state. Packing houses which have started to use such methods have found them more practical, and, in the long run, less costly. v . And, as the St. Louis Post Dispatch declares, "There is no argument for needless cruelty." House Bill. 629 should be passed. E.A. ' Hint to the weatherman: We could sure use some rain, J3.A. - Dennis the Hazards of Interviewing Dog Recounted By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (UPD- Even in this town, where there are 754 newspapers and wire ser vice reporters and almost as many publicity agents, it was a little sur prising to hear that Lassie had called a press confer ence. It took a half hour and a half - doz en phone calls Frank Eleazer w coniirm my impression that this was ut terly ridiculous. Why, Lassie wasn't even in town. It was Rin Tin Tin who was here and was desirous of meeting the press. Rinty, as his friends call him, was registered in 700B, the presidential suite at the Sheraton-Park. He had six rooms, in one of which an attendant stood ready with hair of the dog, in case any body got bit. Nobody did, but some of those present possibly had been bit somewhere else the night before. Hire Local Dog Whether it was to guard Rinty, or keep free-loaders out of the bar, I don't know, but a police dog named Tim, hired from a local detective agency, kept watch at the main corridor door. This turn ed out to be a handy thing as many of the nice old ladies and toddlers who showed up mistook him for the host. This tended to keep down somewhat the population den sity, temperature, and hum idity in the parlor, where Rinty himself was encamped. As everybody knows, Rin Tin Tin is a handsome, king sized German shepherd, al legedly the fourth in a line stretching back to 1918 and one of the Kaiser's trenches. So naturally I had some good questions ready about West Berlin, etc. But I soon gave up trying to ask them. Rintey was be ing pushed, petted, mauled and admired by a large un critical group, of average age about 7, and the fact nobody drew back a nub testified to his superhuman restraint. In addition, a 6xi-pound Maltese ball of white canine fluff named Binky, identified as part of a reception commit tee, was flirting with Rinty at what I thought was con siderable temptation to him and imminent peril to herself. Luckily, though, trainer Estate Planning Meet Scheduled U.- S. National bank will hold an estate planning forum in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel in Medford, Wednesday, April 15, starting at 7:30 pjn. Allan F. Perry, manager of the Medford branch, will pre side at the meeting. Opening remarks and introductions will be made by William R. Bradshaw, U.S. National trust officer. The current series marks the 10th year that U.S. Na tional has presented the se ries throughout the state. t The topics to be discussed are planning for family pro tection, planning for property conservation and planning for tax saving. Speakers will include H. E. Butler, W. D. Hinson and G. M. Tretheway, all trust offi cers from the bank's head of fice. A question and answer pe riod and social hour with re freshments will conclude the forum, Perry said. Anyone in terested in attending is invited. Menace HI by UPI Staff Man Frank Barnes had admonished Rinty this was a business trip. Nuzzles Binky Strictly in line of duty, Rin Tin Tin nuzzled Binky for the photogs, sniffed (but in un-canine deference to orders refrained even from licking) a juicy dinosaur-sized" bone served courtesy of the hotel on a big tray by a reluctant white coated waiter, and for picture purposes tied up the phone for 10 minutes. I guess he's not as smart as he's pictured though because when the ho tel operator asked what was his order, please, he just open Wilderness Bill Due In Senate Committee By7 Congressional Quarterly Washington -(CQ)-The bill to preserve some of the na tion's remaining wilderness is expected to undergo its first test of strength next month. Late in May, or possibly early June, the -Senate In terior Committee is expect ed to decide whether the so called wildreness bill should be sent to the floor for a vote. The committee decision, to be made behind closed doors,, wiU be the first vote on the measure since it was first dis cussed 10 years ago. The wilderness bill would set aside about 50 . million acres for Mother Nature. This acreage amounts to about 2 per cent of the land area of the U. S. Man could visit the wilderness, but could not stay. He could look at the giant trees and wild animals, but he could not take them away. Proponents View Backers of the wilderness bill call it a "now or never" proposition. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), sponsor of the Senate's wilderness bill, contends "it is our clear duty to do something before the horse is out of the barn." Nature lovers, in their bliz zard of letters falling down on Congress, plead for the measure and underscore Thor eau's contention that "we need the tonic of the wilder ness." Although the opposition is outnumbered, it has more po litical power. The mining, lumber, mineral and petrol eum interests are fighting the wilderness bill. They con tend it will lock them out of areas they will need to de velop later on. The bill is full of compro mises in an effort to get both conservationists and commer cial interests behind it. It says existing uses of forest land such as grazing will be allowed to cbntinue even af Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF MIKE CONNOLLY tells about a vice-president of a film company who was given the gate by his fellow officers. "But he took it like a man,", reports Mike admiringly. "He blamed it on his wife!" Mike knows another Hollywood character who strode forth to buy his girl an engage ment ring, but got his fin gers crushed between two pushcarts. Novelist Evelyn Waugh is an eccentric dresser. Malcolm Muggeridge, of Punch, said he looks "like a letter delivered to the wrong address." Mug geridge was even more star tled when Waugh seriously ad vanced the theory that Mar shal Tito of Yugoslavia is, in fact, a woman! There's a formidable character in the Broadway tec lor vwioe job it is to keep sex out of the movies.- No, he's not a member of the censorship board. He's a balcony usher. C 1359, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King feature Syndicate. Fidel Castro Due in Under Scrutiny; Communist Threat Seen By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Cuban Premier Fidel Cas tro storms the United States this week. The word "storm" is used advisedly about this contro versial figure whose revolu tion in Cuba began as a lo cal . disturb ance in the mountains of Oriente Prov vince in 1956, but so gained in fury that it Phil Newsom was a IU11- scale hurricane which swept all before it by the time it reached Havana in 1958. Nor was its fury abated aft er Castro succeeded in oust ing former President Fulgen cio Batista and took over him self as premier. Since then Castro has lash ed in all directions, with the ed his mouth and dropped the phone on the floor. I never did get t6 ask Rinty what he had in his mind. However, there was a mim eographed announcement on the hall table noting that Rin Tin Tin is appearing current ly on ABC television in the Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Also, as I beat my way through the crowd toward the door a pretty lady named Nor ton who works for the hotel yelled after me: "Be sure and mention the Sheraton-Park!" So I'm pretty sure I got the message anyway. ' ter the acreage is declared part of the proposed National Wilderness Preservation sys tem. And it says the Presi dent can open up wilderness areas for mining, timbering or other developments if he believes that is advisable. Further Compromise Still another major compro mise is being discussed by the Senate Interior Committee. It would require Congression al approval before any piece of land could be put into the Wilderness System. This would enable the commercial interests to have their say every step of the way. Even with this compromise, insiders give the wilderness bill only about a 50-50 chance of being voted out of the Sen ate Committee. The Commit tee is made up entirely of Senators living west of the' Mississippi. About three-quar-' ters of the land which would go into the wilderness sys tem is in the west, so these Senators feel they have the most to lose. There is little doubt that the bill would pass if it ever reached the Senate floor. Then the measure would have to clear the House Interior Committee, also dominated by Westerners, next the Rules Committee and finally the House itself. The House has not done anything on the bill this year. - All this makes it extremely unlikely that the wilderness bill will become law in 1959. It stays alive through 1960, however, and public pressure may be able to push it through Congress theu. Lester Oliver, an Apache Indian, recently told the Sen ate Committee he had an easy way to settle the controversy. "It's obvious you white peo ple can never agree on this bill," he said, "so why don't you just give all the land back to the Indians?" (Copyright 1959, Congression al Quarterly Inc.) ' li. J United, States a favorite and frequent target on subjects running the gamut from mili tary, through political and business. Besides delivering a speech before the American "Society cf Newspaper Editors in Washington, Castro .also is ex pected to ask the U. S. for economic aid and for a revis ion upward of Cuba's sugar quota in the United States. Policie Under Scrutiny As result, his policies will come under considerable scru- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or inrtial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the cas Likes Library To the Editor: Once again it is Library Week. We should all go to the library and see the many improvements that have been made throughout the year. There are many in teresting new books available on a great variety of subjects. Also the atmosphere is cheer ful and very helpful. We now have the services of three professionally trained librarians, Miss Helen Web ster as head librarian, Miss Joyce Marlin as reference li brarian, and Miss Julie Keiser in the children's department. Miss Webster and her staff deserve praise for the excel lent job they are doing. Ruby Freeman 3365 Hollywood ave. Medford Asks Smokeless Heating To the Editor: I constantly hear "Make Medford Beauti-ful"-which a lot of us have strived to do. But the longer I live here the more I wonder what's the use. Why? Well, I wonder if the city is so concerned with the beau-ty-which I would term fresh paint, improvements, etc why does the town of Med ford put up with this filthy smudge? Medford is a large town now, and yet they tolerate this filth and unhealthy situ ation. Do they realize how much it costs the household er? There are drapes to be cleaned, ' interior decorating, outside painting, the clothes in the closets, the linens in the linen closets, the light col ored automobiles. Not only that-there's a terrible traffic hazard in the early morning hours going to work. The white face steers are grey faced. The pets we love are grey instead of white. That's Only on the outside when you sleep in a closed up house and you get up in the morning and blow black smudge out of your nose-how much more is in your lungs? , The school classrooms, desks, etc., are covered with it. There's no way to get away from it. What's the answer? There is such a thing as smokeless smudge-or smokeless orchard firing. A few kindly orchard ists are using it-but very few. Why can't there be a law on every orchard using it? What's the matter with Medford that they don't insist on smokeless firing? It's expensive yes, it might mean one fewer extra car or some other luxury, but when it means so much to the rest of humanity I'm sure it can be worked out. And they plan a $5V mil lion retirement home here. Do these people who are buy ing into it realize what they are getting into? I doubt it most of them are not from Medford. It's certainly a shame we can't honestly brag about our town. Maybe all householders should send a bill to the orchardists for smudge damage arid they'd feel it was cheaper to put in smokeless firing. Bertha McCormick Route 1 Medford Foxes To the Editor: At dawn a vixen was carrying a quail she had just caught. She took it to her five puppies in the fox den which was their home. Most Californians know little about our mammals be cause most of them now are nocturnal. It is suspected that those who foraged in broad daylight have been gradually eliminated by what Darwin called "natural selec- i tion." The word "fox" occurs in many languages. Even in the small area of England we find Breatheasy Complete Set Regularly $12" NOW $750 Limited-Time Offer U.S. as Policies tiny. They also came under scru tiny last week in a meeting of American ambassadors to 12 Caribbean nations, held in San Salvador. At the San Salvador meet ing, U. S. Ambassador to Cu ba Philip W. Bensal was un derstood to have expressed concern over evidences of in creasing Communist activity in Cuba but to have held out the overall hope that Cuba eventually would settle down as a stable, free-world dem- in the Midlands "fox" as a human surname. In the North, it is "Todd." Sacramento has one family, the Todhunters. In the South of England, from Devonshire across' to -Kent, the name is "Reynolds." This is a corruption of the French word "reynard." . Students of French in our schools are familiar with the poem, "Monsieur Corbeau." The crow in this fable in verse is about to enjoy a mor sel of cheese. Then the foxy fox starts to flatter him as to his iridescent plumage. Mon sieur Reynard says he further suspects that the crow has a grand opera voice. He asks for a sample of his vocal abil ity. Under this flattery, the vain crow starts to sing, drops the cheese. The fox makes off with it. Interest in birds is ever in creasing. Ot late years, lead ers in Nature study for chil dren are also emphasizing the mammals. CM. Goethe, Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Is Christianity Real? To the Editor: If peace and goodwill are not increasing in the world, perhaps we're not working from the right angle. Perhaps our prayers are mere ly repetitions and we need to put our heart and mind and soul into them. Perhaps we are praying for the wrong things. Until we have done some thing about the "greed" in our hearts, none of the efforts for better world conditions will have too much effect. Too much is turned to bad ac count. We don't do unto oth ers as weid be done by. "Four Day Work Weeks" won't help the unemployment situation very much. Too many will take a second job or even a third. It is being done now on a large scale even with our five day week. Unemployment benefits are more attractive to some than jobs. They are collected re gardless of real need. Others are becoming artists at col lecting relief and then using it wastefully. People in a po sition to do good are filling their own bank accounts. Our Christianity is it real? Do we go to church to praise and thank our Lord, or to be counted among the church goers? Do we pray for mater ial things or "Christ-like love," which is the "bread" for which we should pray? For Christ was the "bread of life." He also was "love." So our prayer must be for His kind of love, to be heard in heaven, as well as to accom plish His works on earth. Francis Ray, Ralston, Wash. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance-Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish P-hone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. ocracy. Castro himself has said he is not a Communist. There is no such certaintv about his brother, Raul, nor about some of his other lieutenants.- During the fiehtine stapi of his revolution, Castro said . many times he would accept help from any quarter, includ ing the Communists. Leftward Tendencies Communist or not. there is no doubt about the leftward tendencies of many of those now in positions of influence in Cuba.. The newspaper Revolucion. which speaks for the revolu tionary movement, recentlv brought out a weekly maga zine section called "Lunes de Revolucion." The name has no political significance but the editorial content seems to have. Ih it are Karl Marx's Com munist manifesto: Vladmir Mayacovsky's "Ode To The Revolution"; John Reed's "The Ten Days That Shook The World"; excerpts from Trotsky's "The History of The Russian Revolution"; and Nic olas Guillen's poem "La Vox Esperanzada" (The Hopeful Voice). Guillen is. a Cuban Com munist poet. An editorial introducing the new magazine said: Dislike Criticism "We want to say, simply that we are not Communists. So that we may also say we are not anti-Communists. We are intellectuals, artists and writers of the left- we see Communism pass by the side and place itself on the right in many questions of art and literature." The intellectuals who are to the left of Communism do not take kindly to criticism, real or implied, or to report ing which may take some of the shine from the glory of their revolution. Castro himself sees an enemy behind every wood pile. Last week, United Press In ternational became one of his targets. A UPI dispatch had report ed instances of labor unrest, sabotage and the presence of small, armed counter-revolutionary groups in the interior of Cuba. The information also had been published in local Havana newspapers. Castro described it as a "campaign.of defamation" and a "base criminal work against Cuba." T HAVE AN " -EXTRA VACATIONS - ON THE WAY!E See us NOW even if rou're going NEXT SPRING! Com M ia far FB " fully 01utratd fitrorw SEE GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE W Resero and Stl Airiin and SttimsKip Tkt PHOME SP 7-6719 111 L 8th Don't Race Your Motor! Outboard rmrw w- you hiv rvee i'' property d r 5 Boats, roofcv vii-f ar er"v r-.,-,r, jo check if u fc .yo(Vt you nci. -a- t i. via Bill Fish BY SfP 4 - e rvM 1
